Lisa Wilson’s
Lake.
Water in many ways defines us, after all we are 50% water, so
when a chorographer decides to create
modern ballet to be performed in water the result must be anything but
normal.
Lisa Wilson’s modern dance Lake requires the entire stage to
be literally flooded to create an environment akin to an Australian outback
lake. It creates a sense on one hand of the benign and at the same time fearful.
The ballet like life itself mirrors and reflects our joys and disappointment.
Three dancers Kristina Chan, Hsin-Ju Chin and Timothy Ohl
turn in stunning performances, both in their physical energy and grace. The entire
ballet takes place in water to symbolise a lake requiring considerable strength and as anyone who
has walked through water will testify. Their movements create a new kind of
texture and patterns with the displaced water their bodies create.
This dance company hails from Queensland, so dancing in water
up there would be fine, how compatible the dance was in the terms of warmth
here in Hobart’s Theatre Royal is another question. But they survived much to
their credit.
This work is highly original in choreograph and action
keeping the audience on their seats edge. At times I felt that they must be
drinking a lot of water as the level went down as they threw each other
vigorously around. It would be possible to drown even in this shallow water.
Lisa Wilson with twenty year international career behind her
has yet again presented a distinctive and physically demanding piece of theatre
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